Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Phone: (412) 383-8678
e-mail: gobbelg@upmc.edu

Specialized Areas of Interest

Molecular basis of neuronal injury and apoptosis following DNA damage; neuronal differentiation and axon guidance; molecular mechanisms of radiation-induced brain injury; neural stem cell therapies for brain injury

Biography

Glenn Gobbel, DVM, PhD, joined the Department of Neurological Surgery as an assistant professor in July of 1999. He received his undergraduate degree in neurobiology from the University of Florida in 1980. He also earned his DVM from the University of Florida in 1985. After two years of clinical practice in veterinary medicine, he returned to graduate school and obtained his PhD in biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco in 1991, where he used non-invasive CT imaging techniques to evaluate the effects of various agents on radiation-induced brain injury. He received a two-year fellowship from the American Brain Tumor Association in 1991, and was a post-doctoral fellow of the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco, from 1991-1994 and an assistant research biophysicist from 1994-1999.

His primary research interests are the cellular and molecular mechanisms of radiation injury to the central nervous system. He is also studying the potential role of neural stem cells in brain tumor therapy and amelioration of CNS injury. He is the principal investigator of a project funded by the NINDS, “Effect of Previous Irradiation on Brain Tumor Growth and Response to Therapy.”

Dr. Gobbel has published 42 articles in refereed journals and four book chapters

Dr. Gobbel's publications can be reviewed through the National Library of Medicine's publication database.

Professional Organization Membership

Society for Neuroscience
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Editorial Service

• Ad Hoc Reviewer:

Neurochemical Research
Radiotherapy and Oncology
James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program